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Turtles aren’t known for their parental instincts, but the arrau is an exception. The discovery is spurring a race to save the chatty species.
Known locally as the arrau or tartaruga da amazonia, the giant South American river turtle lives throughout the Amazon and its tributaries. During the dry season, thousands of females at once crawl onto beaches along the river to lay their eggs.
After nesting, females often hover by the shore for up to two months waiting for their eggs to hatch.
So researches wondered: are mother turtle and child turtle communicating with one another? To test the idea, her team spent months taping the turtles — on land and underwater, in the wild and in a swimming pool.
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